San Jose (CA) – Samsung is getting more aggressive in the hard drive market: The company today announced a new 160 GB drive in a 1.8" form factor – which is often used in compact notebooks and some portable audio and video players such as the video iPod.

According to the manufacturer, the 4200 rpm Spinpoint N2 drive is targeting mainly consumer applications such as portable media players and hard drive-based camcorders (which typically top out at 60 GB today). The 2-disk, 160 GB drive has enough room to carry about 40,000 MP3 files or about 100 HD movies.

Samsung did not say when the new drives will be available and how much they will cost.

The hard drive industry is on fire these days, answering the apparent competition from flash-based solid state disk (SSD) drives, which are expected to hit capacities of 128 GB this year. Samsung is one of the key drivers in the SSD segment, but is becoming a more visible player in the hard drive market as well.

Might want to change 128 MB to 128 GB. [Thanks to ...

Aug 20, 2007 11:58     

Might want to change 128 MB to 128 GB. [Thanks to all who noticed this error and wrote us a quick note - ed]
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They're starting to impress in hard drive market.

Aug 20, 2007 18:25     

First the 334GB platters in the 1TB disk, now this. Impressive... They are working good in the hard drive market.
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160GB = 100 HD movies???

Aug 20, 2007 18:58     

Considering a standard dual layer DVD (9 GB) can't hold a single HD movie I don't think that math holds up. 160GB is closer to 8 HD movies.
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nice :)

Aug 20, 2007 19:00     

Don't you just love technology(donno how to spell .. or if thats how u spell it), but man its awesome.
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Never enough toys!!!

Aug 21, 2007 05:00     

I want one of each. Both the 160GB 1.8" disk AND the 128GB SSD. You can never have enough storage!!! When do they hit the market and how much?
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Speaking of Samsung...

Aug 21, 2007 09:01     

TGDaily reported Samsung's new 1 TB, 3.5", HDD. Yet, I have not seen this new HDD anywhere. I have searched on PriceGrabber, PriceWatch, and Google (Froogle). What is this, VaporWare?! B^O
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